Yesterday the two men in the crevice cleaned up by hand for two hours, probably cleaned up the length of a hundred meters or so of the passage, today the two men brought scythes and shovels, the speed is very fast, but the more inward to clean up, by the silt accumulation of mud blocking the passage of the lot more, these piles of mud is the crevice on both sides of the rock weathering into mud, fall and pile up due to the necessity of shovels to shovel these mud, blocking the way of the mud there is no place to put it, were two men padded in the cleaned-up There was no place to put the dirt in the way, it was padded by the two men on the cleared crevice channel.
Now the season of the valley is characterized by the end of winter, some hibernating animals are dug out from the deep mud by the two men, the hibernating animals that do not endanger the two men are released, such as hedgehogs, frogs, turtles, snails, and other small animals, as for these hibernating inhabitants who are disturbed to live or not, it is not in the scope of the two men's concern, while the snakes that like to hibernate en masse are miserable, no matter if they are poisonous or not, the two men are to see a shoveling a dead one, and never Mercy, choose to hibernate in the crevice of the snake is too much, so that the channel all the way is shoveled off the head of the snake corpse. Digging in half the length, the two men also retrieved the crossbow and arrow that they wanted to recover yesterday, as for the injured hare, only a puddle of blood and a few pinches of hare hair remained next to the crossbow and arrow. Presumably the hare had gotten into the mouth of its superior animal chain.
Tools and no tools to clean up the speed is a world of difference, two people dry an hour, rest five minutes, to three o'clock in the afternoon or so, the gap channel to the end, the end of the channel is covered by trees and vines and weeds, the vines and weeds with a scythe, and shoveled off a few small trees, organize a place that can accommodate one person to freely enter and exit, drilling the gap mouth, the two men climbed to the gap mouth of the large camphor tree on the lookout, and found the exit is half a slope on the east mountain, the visual estimate from half a slope to the bottom of the mountain is about half an hour. Discovered that the gap exit is in the east of the mountain half-slope, visually walk from the half-slope to the bottom of the mountain is about half an hour, this half an hour is the case of no mountain road, if there is an artificial path, to the bottom of the mountain as long as ten minutes.
Zheng Yuming's telescope with the villa of the same fate as the cigarettes, have been Chu Chao Hui hijacked, although the two items are the same fate, the treatment is not the same, the cigarettes are placed in the villa, the telescope is carried by Chu Chao Hui, there are telescopes amplification, Chu Chao Hui look at the mountains to see very clearly.
"There's an artificial path down there." Chu Chao Hui reported his discovery to Zheng Yuming, who was on the tree branch beside him.
Zheng Yuming squinted at the foot of the mountain and didn't see a road.
"Someone is walking, on foot, with a big basket on his back." Chu Chao Hui found someone on the walking path.
Zheng Yuming reached his neck and only found a black spot moving at the foot of the mountain.
"There's a donkey, someone driving a donkey cart."
Zheng Yuming only see bigger black spots, can not see the pedestrians, only to hear Chu Chao Hui oral, Zheng Yuming dissatisfaction, at least he is the original owner of the telescope, Chu Chao Hui focus on their own observation, did not think to let him look on a look, this is not a little excessive?
Chu Chao Hui stared at the pedestrians, measuring their clothing, only to see the pedestrians at the foot of the mountain have long hair on their heads, either tied into a ponytail, or wrapped in cloth, the clothes are not cloaked like on the ship, it is the kind of narrow jumpsuit, what kind of fabric can not be seen clearly, observed a few people, the color of the clothes is basically blue and green. Earthy yellow, or brown.
Chu Chao Hui to continue to describe their observations to Zheng Yuming listen, said a moment, suddenly feel Zheng Yuming a little wrong, half a day did not hear him respond, put down the binoculars and look back, Zheng Yuming is a face of dissatisfaction looking at him.
Chu Chao Hui toward Zheng Yuming raised his eyebrows, think when the hijacking of the buggy also did not see Zheng Yuming show dissatisfaction, now have become dependent on each other, how to have an opinion on him?
Zheng Yuming saw Chu Chaohui turn back and looked at him as if he didn't understand, he couldn't help but hum from his nose.
"Come to my side!" Chu Chao Hui found Zheng Yuming take the eyes cut down hard in his hands binoculars, it suddenly realized, the original only focus on their own lookout, did not let Zheng Yuming use the lower binoculars, from the camphor tree to look at the foot of the mountain, there is no magnification tool, simply can not see the scene under the mountain, the two people wear to a strange place, and now can communicate with the outside world, of course, want to look at what kind of a world was transported to, Zheng Yuming is anxious to be justified.
Chu Zhaohui where the tree branch position look down the mountain view angle is the best, Zheng Yuming is not pretentious, quickly from their own branch to climb to Chu Zhaohui side, Chu Zhaohui body slightly backward, so that Zheng Yuming stood in front of him on the thick branch.
Zheng Yuming from the binoculars finally put the naked eye to see the black spot, riding a donkey black spot has turned the corner can not be seen, but behind the back of the person carrying a basket can be seen, this is a middle-aged man, the head wrapped in blue cloth, a dark blue even???.
Chu Zhaohui without binoculars, even if he has 1.8 good eyesight, and Zheng Yuming the same can not see the pedestrians at the foot of the mountain, boredom, he leaned on the tree pole to survey the surrounding, where they are on the hillside terrain is fairly flat, just a little dense trees, here should be the trees blocking the way, so no one touched the gap, and no one through the gap to find that there is a piece of valley behind the east mountain range. After surveying the terrain, Chu Zhaohui looked up at the sky, and felt that they should now move back to the valley, and then late will have to walk in the dark.
Chu Chao Hui straightened down, want to call Zheng Yuming down tree back, just want to speak, Zheng Yuming lookout too focused, body a crooked almost fell down the tree, Chu Chao Hui quickly embrace Zheng Yuming waist.
Zheng Yuming was embraced by Chu Chao Hui stood steadily, turned back and wanted to thank Chu Chao Hui, and Chu Chao Hui is body forward, so a turn back, a forward leaning, Zheng Yuming's face and Chu Chao Hui's face collided with each other, the mouth and the mouth is the first intimate contact.
For a few seconds, both men were stumped.
After Zheng Yuming reacted to what his mouth was touching, his face turned red, and he was busy leaning back, wanting to keep a distance from Chu Chao Hui, but with this action, his body was in danger of falling out of the tree again.
"Do I count as having saved you twice?" Chu Chao Hui grabbed the tree trunk with his right hand and fished out Zheng Yuming's body with his left hand, the corner of his mouth slightly raised and there was teasing in his eyes.
Zheng Yuming seventeen or eighteen years old when the skin is the best, smooth and white, and now the face is red, as if dyed rouge, in the green camphor leaf village behind, showing a kind of voluptuousness.
"Let's go down!" Jung Yuming just wanted to get out of the awkward atmosphere where their bodies were too close.
"Well, okay, but be careful when you go down, it's seven or eight meters high, you'll break your leg if you fall." Chu Chao Hui while laughing lowly and going down the tree first, before releasing Zheng Yuming's waist to go down the tree, he also pinched it with his hand.
Zheng Yuming was frozen in the tree branch by Chu Chao Hui's waist pinching and didn't react until Chu Chao Hui landed and shouted for him to get down from the tree.
"We have to hurry back to the valley, tomorrow we'll go to the foot of the mountain to see what the hell this place is." Chu Chao Hui seemed not to see Zheng Yuming's discomfort, just put the backpack under the camphor tree to his body, two shovels tied with rope to fight to the shoulder, and left for Zheng Yuming were two sickles.
"What dynasty do you think it is now?" Chu Chaohui's nonchalance brought Jung Yuming out of his embarrassment.
"I don't know, I haven't taken the ancient test." Chu Chao Hui raised his eyebrows towards Zheng Yuming.
"Uh..." Zheng Yuming regretted that he had asked the idiotic question.
One day's labor results are great, was cleaned up after the channel can only accommodate one person at the narrowest point, the widest place can be five or six people side by side, two people from the gap channel back to the valley in half an hour, two people through the gap, was along the way dead snake corpses to the nausea of a hand, if there is no snake cleaned up from the soil, if the temperature returns to warm up, this gap will not be the paradise of all snakes? Two people are now tired like a dog, the raw materials can do delicious snake soup can not mention the energy, the thickest snake in this has a child calf thick green snake are not interested in bringing back.
Back to the villa, the sky has just darkened, the wood has long been two paws grasping the door and screaming. Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui worked all day, people not only dirty to death, but also tired to death. Zheng Yuming let Chu Zhaohui workers kitchen cooker large iron pot full of well water, in the cooker hall rise firewood burned two pots of hot water, a person divided into a pot with a wooden bucket to carry to the greenhouse bath, villa without electricity, there is no way to heat the villa sealing performance is good, the temperature inside is still very low, and the temperature in the greenhouse than the sun's midday temperature is much higher than the temperature in the inside of the bath there will not catch a cold to this place, both of them pay considerable attention to physical health. The two men are quite aware of the health of the body, although the hands of a little Western medicine, available after the end of the no, do not understand the Chinese medicine of the modern people, sick is called to give birth to the poor.
Because too tired, Zheng Yuming lazy frying cooking, boiling water at the same time, in a small pot of white porridge, two men eating porridge can not eat enough, Zheng Yuming adjusted more than a dozen noodle lumps in the white porridge.
After a good bath, the two crossers fill their stomachs with salted vegetables, and the wood is white porridge mixed with meat floss, the wood is only teething, Zheng Yuming is afraid that it will not digest what it eats, and a can of meat floss found in the villa becomes the exclusive product of the little milk dog.
Zheng Yuming before going to bed, with yeast seasoned pot of flour, put into the still warm iron pot with a lid, tomorrow get up ready to make into a rising cake to bring on the body as lunch.
Early the next morning, Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui in the down coat coat a piece of navy blue overalls, the lower body is also wearing the same color of the work pants, these overalls are Zheng's flower and wood base for the workers of customized fabric firm wear-resistant, color and dirt-resistant, flower and wood base of the workers are accustomed to the overalls placed in the workers' room in the warehouse ready to change to go to work to change to go off work and then change back to the clothes to go home because of this habit, the workers' room there are ten pieces of Because of this habit, in the workers room there are ten pieces of overalls tops, nine pairs of overalls pants, these overalls loose, overalls fat, Chu Chao Hui such a tall man, overalls in half the size is suitable for him.
Two sets of overalls out of the valley and people deal with, but also yesterday lookout to see the local residents dressed to do the decision, not and this time and space people the same clothing, will wear their own as close as possible to the local residents, this navy blue overalls and local residents on the clothes of the color is similar to be selected.
Zheng Yuming before leaving, looking at the wood a little hesitant, he did not know this time out of the valley one day can not return, to the wood prepared for two days of food, but if out of the valley two days can not come back, to three days, four days, five days ... ... But if he can't come back after two days, it will take three days, four days, five days... If he can't come back after an accident, what will he do? Will he starve to death in the villa?
Wood had been eyeing the master out of the villa door, but saw the master stood in the doorway and stood still, not only not moving, but also staring at it in search of thought, the clever wood immediately felt the master's reluctance, has always wanted to follow the master out of the wood, where willing to let go of this opportunity, immediately wailed and swooped down to Zheng Yuming's feet, wagging his tail and circling around the Zheng Yuming's feet.
"If you can't give up, then take it with you, taking a dog will not be taken as a demon or devil by the ancients." Chu Zhaohui have walked to the courtyard door, looked back and found that people and dogs are reluctant to give up.
"Well, it's better to take it with you, I don't know when I can come back after leaving the valley." Zheng Yuming made up his mind, so he went to the refrigerator and looked for a plastic bag to put Woody's food, put it under the backpack, and put Woody into the backpack, the zipper was not zipped all the way up, leaving a gap for Woody to put the little dog's head exposed on it.
"You have to scream when you urinate and defecate, okay?" Zheng Yuming nodded Woody's little nose.
"Woof woof woof!" Woody immediately barked in excitement, finally ending his house arrest.
"Hey..." Zheng Yuming looked at the chaotic screaming a gas of wood shaking his head, it seems that the wood is again smart, the lack of translation or will be miscommunicating, but the size of the wood will have been humming notification, it turns out to put the wood in the arms, the wood is so indicated.
Two men and a dog greeted the light set off, the villa to the gap between the two have been out of a path to the two, because there is a ready-made path, the two walked to the gap mouth to shorten the time, the original hour and a half time, and now with fifty minutes to get to the gap channel in the wind is smaller than yesterday, this is related to the wind direction, yesterday is the east and west winds, a bit of southeast wind, the direction of the direction of bias, east and west towards the gap channel through the wind is correspondingly weak. The wind is correspondingly weaker, so the speed through the gap channel is also faster, the passage time is shorter by five or six minutes. Along the way, the passage of the snake corpse less than two thirds, it seems that some beasts do not mind the dead meat, last night in the gap channel to eat a full meal.
It took the two of them half an hour to descend from the mouth of the crevice to the trail at the foot of the mountain, and the sun had just risen below the horizon when they arrived at the trail. The path at the foot of the mountain was the typical 'people walk too much to become a road kind of thing', there were wheel marks on the path, and looking in the direction where the passersby and donkey carts traveled yesterday, all you could see was that the path was curved and twisted, and you couldn't see where the end was.
Ancient times of people living in a harsh environment, not only to fight with the sky and the earth, but also have to fight with the life of the beasts at the field is too dangerous, people will return to their homes before dark and close the door tightly, the pedestrians yesterday evening to see the direction of progress are the same, are toward the south, from which can be judged, the south side of the trail should be the place where human beings gather, where there must be a village.
Judging the direction of the village, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui traveled along the path towards the south, and when they came to the corner of the path, they heard someone screaming in front of them, and the sound they made seemed to be "help".
Chu Chaohui quickly pick up the steel rod, ran to the screaming place, walking behind Zheng Yuming did not bring a steel rod, only with a mini pistol and crossbow, see Chu Chaohui has rushed over, hastily stopped to give the small crossbow on the iron arrows, crossbow than the bow and arrow, but there is a fatal injury, is the time on the arrows than the bowman to take arrows to take the bow for a long time, crossbow bowman touched the bowman, more than the first arrows, crossbow bowman the first arrows missed, the second arrows on the loss of the first opportunity! Often, when the crossbowman loaded the arrow to fire, the archer has opened the bow to shoot the second arrow, that time, the crossbowman can only pray that the archer's vision is not allowed to allow themselves to have the opportunity to fire the second crossbow.
When Zheng Yuming ran through the corner of the path carrying a crossbow loaded with iron arrows, he only saw Chu Chao Hui standing beside a mule cart that had overturned on the side of the road, while in front of the mule cart there was a man in a brown coat who was getting up from the ground, and not far away on the west side of the path, there were two people dressed in earthy yellow clothes who were fleeing into the mountains in haste.